Reducing SSH Login Attacks

For the last 10 years or so I’ve managed some kind of a Linux server environment. One of the biggest annoyances are constant brute force attacks on the SSH interface. One solution is to change the port, but that I just find to be not needed. So, in an effort to reduce the amount of attacks I have on my server, I wrote a little script many years ago in PHP that scanned the SSH log for failed log in attempts. Continue reading “Reducing SSH Login Attacks”

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